Whether it’s making an instrument panel from a tablet stand, turning bed slats into a dinghy floor, creating a wine rack from a book case, assisting with cockpit locker organisation or finding the perfect onboard reading light – we’ve got lots of great ideas for low cost IKEA products.
Check out our six IKEA hacks for your boat to get inspired.
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Could this be the perfect onboard reading light? Cheap on-board lighting, the IKEA way.
Cheap but effective anchor light
John Macdonald makes a low-wattage anchor light from odds and ends – plus an outlay of 99p
Make a boom tent for your cockpit
Bob Goode shows how you can increase your accommodation by making a custom boom tent
Replacing a broken screw in wood
Shipwright Alan Campbell passes on a useful tip to help deal with a broken screw
Make your own fids for splicing
Tony Nield makes his own fids from copper pipe and the cork from a bottle of port
Turn a storm jib into a trysail
A storm jib came with my second-hand 23ft (7m) Hunter Duette, but it couldn’t be run up the forestay because…
Straightening a bent mast
When I bought my new boat a couple of years ago I was very disappointed to find that her mast…
Cheap chain pipe cover
To reduce the amount of water that runs down my chain pipe, I have a two-piece cover cut from a…
Make a fid from a ballpoint pen
I wanted to change my main halyard with the mast up. The halyard is inside the mast, exiting at the…
Solar panel mounts
Off-the-shelf anodised aluminium sections can provide a Meccano-type solution for many structural projects on a boat. I used some to…
Righting an upturned pontoon
Hurricane-force storms during the winter of 2013/14 caused a lot of damage in the west of Ireland. Beaches were washed…
Cockpit table and extra bunks for a Sailfish
Howard Betts had a brainwave to design a versatile cockpit table – then he slept on it
Make a Bow Protector
Sam Longley uses soil pipe to protect his boat's bow from marina pontoons